Deciding to test the waters on my 2005 saturn ion. Definitely a little bit of a project here, but has potential to be either a unique car, or returned to factory condition. Either way it is a reliable car and has never left me stranded since I've owned the car. I am the original owner.

Specifics about the car:
I started and have 90% completed a coupe front end swap, all that's left is to either wire up or remove the fog lights, and the trim pieces that go over the doors (I do have them)

The bad (to get this out of the way)
First and foremost the car could use a paintjob. As you can see
There are some small dents, dings and scratches all over the car with the worst in the roof and trunk
It is currently on 3 lowering springs and 1 factory spring. The shop I took it to scrapped my lowering spring when I had a strut replaced. A replacement set of new lowering springs can run $150
The interior is a little rough, the shifter was cut, the shift boot, some door panels and the headliner are the roughest parts of the interior.
And it needs an oil change (unless I end up doing that here shortly)

The good/other stuff
Full aftermarket exhaust, with a ported manifold, down pipe with high flow cat, and cat back exhaust
Recaro racing seats, they are a full set out if a redline model, and I have the originals
Sony head unit
4 motegi ff7 wheels with decent tires, as well as 2 wheels with studded snow tires
Strut tower brace
And I still have the factory front end except for the passenger fender.
And records for most/all the maintenance done through the life of the car.